Chapter 40 THE GIBBET

See there, see there, what yonder swings

And creaks 'mid whistling rain,

Gibbet and steel-the accursed wheel-

A murderer in his chain.

William and Helen.

As the eddying currents sweep over its plains in howling, bleak December, the horse and her rider passed over what remained of Lincolnshire. Grantham is gone, and they are now more